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Congress Must Put an End to Cynical Politics and Pass a Clean Dream Act Now
Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
CHICAGO - The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously denied the Trump administration’s request to review the legality of the Deferred…

A new report, ICE Lies: Public Deception, Private Profit, released today by Detention Watch Network and the National Immigrant Justice Center, exposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) egregious patterns of fiscal irresponsibility, opacity in management, and disregard for congressional…

LOS ANGELES—On Thursday, a federal court in California ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) unlawfully detained thousands of suspected immigrants on the basis of unconstitutional requests from ICE known as immigration detainers…

Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
President Trump’s immigration plan is an assault on immigrants, refugees, and the will of American voters. The majority of Americans support a clean Dream Act for the more than one million individuals who arrived…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
Elkhart County Board Commissioner Michael Yoder announced this week that the private, for-profit prison company CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) had formally withdrawn its…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
President Trump and Congress must stop playing political games with people’s lives. Americans deserve a fully funded government, health services for children, a strong disaster relief system and an immigration…

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Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s reckless and inhumane decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans living in the United States. This…

NIJC Tells Congress: Defund Abusive Detention System Now
As Congress deliberates the Trump administration’s request for a historically inflated budget to expand the immigration detention and deportation system, a new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Office of Inspector…